I AM

I AM : M. M. Ninan
Traditional Arab rule is that one is beyond the law beyond the
door. You can do anything inside your house. The law can wait for
you outside the door. This is depicted beautifully some of the Old
Testament symbolisms
5.2 DOOR IN PASSOVER
When Jesus spoke to the Jews about the door, the first picture that
came to their mind was probably the door of the Passover night.
Exo 12:22-23 Take a bunch of hyssop, dip it into the blood in the basin
and put some of the blood on the top and on both sides of the doorframe.
Not one of you shall go out the door of his
house until morning. When the LORD
goes through the land to strike down the
Egyptians, he will see the blood on the top
and sides of the doorframe and will pass
over that doorway, and he will not permit
the destroyer to enter your houses and
strike you down.
A door that is marked with blood,
providing a blood covering.
If you are familiar with the Passover
traditions and the traditions of the
Middle Eastern nations one can see the
similarity very easily. There are two doors to the eastern homes.
One door is the door leading to the inner rooms of the house and
the other door is the door that leads into the compound. The lamb
is sacrificed (killed) just outside of the gate and is hung on the
wooden beam of the outer gate. In the sacrifice of the Passover
lamb, they were instructed to dip a bunch of hyssop and put blood
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